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*The scene with Alcazar and Leela on the couch is a reference to ''{{w|Married... with Children}}'' (which had Katey Sagal as Al's nagging, lazy wife, Peg, who had her hair in a bouffant and wore tacky clothes, like kitten heels, clam digger pants, and skintight tops). Alcazar's sleazy friends whooping over the sexually suggestive dialogue is a reference to the actual ''Married...With Children'' audience doing the same.

*The scene with Alcazar and Leela on the couch is a reference to ''{{w|Married... with Children}}'' (which had Katey Sagal as Al's nagging, lazy wife, Peg, who had her hair in a bouffant and wore tacky clothes, like kitten heels, clam digger pants, and skintight tops). Alcazar's sleazy friends whooping over the sexually suggestive dialogue is a reference to the actual ''Married...With Children'' audience doing the same.

*[[Donkey Kong]] appears in ''Death Factory III''. Previously, he [[Monkey Fracas Jr.|was parodied]] in the [[cold opening]] of "[[Space Pilot 3000]]". He is also seen in "[[Anthology of Interest II]]" and "[[The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings]]".

*[[Donkey Kong]] appears in ''Death Factory III''. Previously, he [[Monkey Fracas Jr.|was parodied]] in the [[cold opening]] of "[[Space Pilot 3000]]". He is also seen in "[[Anthology of Interest II]]" and "[[The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings]]".

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*The Professor's head appearing as a giant blue {{sw|hologram}} is most likely a reference to Emperor {{sw|Palpatine}}'s appearance in ''[[Star Wars]] {{sw|Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back|Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back}}'' or a reference to {{w|Zordon}} from ''{{w|Mighty Morphin Power Rangers}}''.

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*The Professor's head appearing as a giant blue {{sw|hologram}} is most likely a reference to {{cat|Emperor}} {{sw|Palpatine}}'s appearance in ''[[Star Wars]] {{sw|Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back|Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back}}'' or a reference to {{w|Zordon}} from ''{{w|Mighty Morphin Power Rangers}}''.

*A {{w|Macintosh}} style menu is used by Bender when selecting a disguise.

*A {{w|Macintosh}} style menu is used by Bender when selecting a disguise.

*One of the alien beings Alcazar transforms into is a {{w|Great Race of Yith|Yithian}} from H.P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow Out of Time".

*One of the alien beings Alcazar transforms into is a {{w|Great Race of Yith|Yithian}} from H.P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow Out of Time".

*The music for the video game sequence, when the crew fights each other online, is from the early 1970's video game ''{{w|Space Invaders}}''.

*The music for the video game sequence, when the crew fights each other online, is from the early 1970's video game ''{{w|Space Invaders}}''.

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*The scene with a baby being shot into space from a planet about to be destroyed is a reference to ''{{w|Superman}}''.

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*The scene with a baby being shot into {{cat|s=no|space}} from a planet about to be destroyed is a reference to ''{{w|Superman}}''.

The Story

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Act I: "We're online!"

After trying and failing several years ago, the Professor finally connects to the Internet through AOL. Everyone except the Professor logs in to the virtual world. After fighting many ads flying around, they visit the "Filthy Chat Room" and the "Filthy Filthy Chat Room". Later, they eventually come together in a "video game", Death Factory III: The Legend of Death Factory II. Inside the game world, they fight each other by shooting lasers with their fingers. Farnsworth appears some times to tell the crew they have a delivery, but they ignore him. When looking for Fry, Leela meets another cyclops, but Fry kills his character and wins the game, preventing Leela learning about her species. On the delivery, Leela receives an email from Alcazar, the other cyclops, who invites her to their home planet. The crew dumps their cargo, which drifts into the sun of the destination planet.

Act II: "Look at that statue, it's only got one eye."

The crew arrive on the planet, where Bender immediately sets about stealing Alcazar's possessions. Alcazar takes Leela to see the ruins of the planet, which include a mosaic of their goddess of beauty (who looks like Leela), The Forbidden Valley, a holy sanctuary where no one may tread and Alcazar's giant castle. Leela asks Alcazar what happened to their people, but he says it's too painful to speak of. At night, Leela hears Alcazar crying. Alcazar tells Leela about her heritige. He tells of their people's demise when the "Eyeless Mole People" of "Subterra 3" shot missiles to the planet because they were jealous of the visual ability of the Cyclops and tells her that they shot lots of missiles hoping to destroy Cyclopia and, unfortunately, one of the missiles destroyed the planet. Alcazar and a baby who was rescued and sent to the Earth were the only survivors. Leela tells him their species will not end with them, and they start to make love. The next morning, Alcazar, or "Al", soon begins to show his true colours, a lowlife jerk. At this point, Leela takes on a whole new look, and the show makes a very strong reference to another show Katey Sagal starred in, Married... with Children. In spite of this, Leela decides to try and continue the species, and Leela and Al get engaged. Fry is upset, and attempts to search The Forbidden Valley, but falls into the dungeon in the process.

Act III: "It's time for this bird to walk!"

The rest of the staff arrives for the wedding. Fry escapes from the dungeon, and he and Bender search the forbidden valley. They find that it holds four identical castles, the first they visit has cyclops statues replaced with 5-eyed-aliens. Meanwhile, back at the wedding, Preacherbot holds the ceremony, and asks Leela if she will marry Alkazar. However, just as Leela is about to say "I do", Fry and Bender burst in with Alcazar's other fiancées. He is revealed to be a shape-shifting grasshopper-type-alien, who is using the same story to wed several lonely aliens. All weddings are called off and Leela continues wondering where she's from.

Additional Info

Trivia

The video game played by the crew is "Death Factory III: The Legend of Death Factory II".

To make room for more stolen items Bender dumps his goldfish bowl, toaster and two more goldfish bowls.

This episode won an Emmy, outstanding colour direction for Bari Kumar.

Quotes

Prof. Farnsworth: Go ahead, get into these net suits. I designed and tested them myself.Leela: [She sniffs her glove.] They smell like burning Rhesus Monkey.Prof. Farnsworth: Really? I guess when you're around it all day you stop noticing. Off you go.

Alcazar: [voice-over] It wasn't long ago. Our people were happy and prosperous, [The flashback cuts to a dark planet with rocky terrain and lots of large molehills.] but the eyeless mole people of Subterra 3 grew jealous of our visual prowess. They fired missile in all directions hoping to hit Cyclopia. [A mole man presses a button and several hundred missiles are launched from the planet.] Unfortunately, one of the 40 planets hit... was ours.[On Cyclopia, a Cyclopian man looks through a telescope at the sky.]Cyclops #1: How far away do you think it is?Cyclops #2: A trillion miles? [The missile lands behind them and explodes.]

Alcazar: Well, this is the real me. But I can explain: We all have needs. Mine was to make it with five weirdos and have them scrub my five castles. I gave you all what you wanted and of course I made a few bucks letting Pig watch through the two-way mirror. Can any of you say you wouldn't have done the exact same thing in my position?Bender: He's a saint!

Allusions

The title of the episode is a reference to a lyric from the song "Daisy Bell".

The playing of "Also sprach Zarathustra" when the Planet Express crew logs on to the Internet, and Fry's line "My God, it's full of ads!" are references to 2001: A Space Odyssey, both book and film. Fry's line refers to Dave Bowman's exclamation "My God...it's full of stars...".

Hermes dodges a pop-up ad the same way Neo dodged bullets in The Matrix, which he is able to do because he is a former limbo champion.

The appearance of the internet is based heavily on its description in Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash.

The scene with Alcazar and Leela on the couch is a reference to Married... with Children (which had Katey Sagal as Al's nagging, lazy wife, Peg, who had her hair in a bouffant and wore tacky clothes, like kitten heels, clam digger pants, and skintight tops). Alcazar's sleazy friends whooping over the sexually suggestive dialogue is a reference to the actual Married...With Children audience doing the same.